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The Super-transmissible BA.5 subvariant of Omicron is fuelling a fresh increase in infections, with cases climbing across the UK, the continent and the US.
Circulation and locked down for a while? is there some relationship to covid here that made people more susceptible to this? if so far it looks like it's not something to be alarmed about which, of course, betweens the w.h.o -- means the w.h.o. will sound an alarm this time, though they didn't do it for covid. >> hey, doc, how efficient is this in terms of being transmitted from person to person and using covid as an example, particularly the omicron variant. is it that efficient in terms of jumping from person to person or, as you said, it's not spreading as easily. do we have any metrics on ...
It hurts when i think about their situation. >> i can totally understand. i'm glad you're out and done some extraordinary reporting there over the years. it's great to have you back, at least for now. thank you. >> good to be home. i'm joined now by professor ben cowling. china continues to persist with this zero covid policy. is it working and what are the impacts of persevering despite the economic and societal impacts? >> i think it worked pretty well for the first two years of the pandemic. there were not too many out yn breaks, not too many infections but it's changed. omicron is much m...
You're going to see a handful of people on that flight who are positive who don't know it. it's best for every one to wear a mask. do not wear a cloth mask or a surgical mask. you want a n-95 mask or kf 95 mask. the other protection is not adequate. is it an ordinary seasonal virus. is that true? >> some time in next few weeks will have killed its one millionth person. omicron which is syringela lcir a more transmissable form has killed about 150,000 people.
This seems to show the new subvariant is more contagious, kelly? >> reporter: they believe it's one and a half times more transmissable. that accountfor the spread we're seeing. here in d.c. health fishes say of the test results they have tracked, to more than 60% of the positive cases have been this ba.2 variant. >> kelly o'donnell at the white house. thank you. we are learning more about a massive fire in a northern california home depot late yesterday and the desperate efforts to evacuate crowds of shoppers and dozens of workers. steve patterson has that >> reporter: from above a molten f...